Сегодня Дмитрию Петрову исполнилось бы 34 года.

Дмитрий организовывал выступления против самодержавного правительства России, пока не был вынужден бежать из страны, где его разыскивала ФСБ. Он отправился в Рожаву и помог издать серию книг о её революционном эксперименте, участвовал в восстаниях в Украине и в Беларуси, организовал подпольную сеть для борьбы с Путиным и, наконец, был убит в апреле этого года, сражаясь против российского вторжения в Украину. Он всегда впечатлял нас своей скромностью и храбростью.

Вы можете прочитать наш панегирик о нём здесь:

https://crimethinc.com/dima

В Европе издательство Active Distribution выпустило книгу, в которой собраны панегирик о Дмитрии и наши переводы его текстов. Заказать её можно здесь:

https://black-mosquito.org/en/dmitry-petrov-a-life-in-combat.html

Его русскоязычные товарищ:ки сделали в его часть этот мемориальный сайт:

https://leshy.info/

Мы от всей души сочувствуем друзьям, подругам и близким Дмитрия.

#Русский

Elon Musk blames the Anti-Defamation League for the catastrophic decline of the platform formerly known as Twitter, but the fault is entirely his own for willfully flooding it with Nazis. Billionaires like him promote anti-Semitism in hopes of distracting angry people from their true enemies—the ruling class itself and the capitalist system that gives a few people so much power.

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

It has been nice to see activity picking up on other platforms this past week. What we knew as Twitter is unsalvagable. Let it die.

Κατανοώντας τις διώξεις RICO στην Ατλάντα
Ένα σαρωτικό κατηγορητήριο επιδιώκει να ποινικοποιήσει την ίδια την αντίσταση

https://crimethinc.com/2023/09/05/katanoontas-tis-dioxeis-rico-sten-atlanta-ena-sarotiko-kategoreterio-epidiokei-na-poinikopoiesei-ten-idia-ten-antistase

Από τις αρχές του 2023, εισαγγελείς στη Τζόρτζια απείλησαν με διώξεις ακτιβιστές, οι οποίοι διαμαρτύρονταν εναντίον μιας σχεδιαζόμενης στρατιωτικοποιημένης εγκατάστασης της αστυνομίας, γνωστής ως “Cop City”, για παραβίαση του νόμου RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations – Επιρροής Εκβιαστών και Διεφθαρμένων Οργανώσεων ). Την περασμένη εβδομάδα, ο Γενικός Εισαγγελέας της Τζόρτζια Κρις Καρ απήγγειλε κατηγορίες υπό το νόμο RICO σε 61 άτομα στην κομητεία Φούλτον.

Η υπόθεση αυτή αντιπροσωπεύει μια πολιτικά υποκινούμενη καταστολή που αποσκοπεί στο να φιμώσει κάθε μορφής ακτιβισμού και πολιτικής διαφωνίας, αλά Βλαντιμίρ Πούτιν.

#Ελληνικά

In response to the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center 22 years ago, the US showed that there is no tragedy that government can't make worse.

Neoconservatives led a bipartisan push to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Congress passed the Patriot Act. The FBI stepped up operations targeting Muslims, but also environmental activists. Politicians militarized the police.

The occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan cost nearly a million lives, driving more people to join the jihadists. The rise of the Islamic State a decade later showed that the invasions had only strengthened the forces that neoconservatives claimed to be attacking. The Taliban recapturing Afghanistan in 2021 confirmed the pointlessness of the invasions.

By any metric, the stability of the US government has eroded since 2001. Every time the authorities escalate the conflicts they expose us to and the control they hope to wield over us, they are taking a risk.

For a more detailed analysis:

https://crimethinc.com/texts/french911

One year ago today, the Iranian Guidance Patrol police arrested Jina Mahsa Amini. Allegedly, she was not wearing the hijab in accordance with Iranian state policy. After Jina died at their hands, people across Iran took to the streets, confronting the police and opening up spaces of ungovernable freedom.

https://crimethinc.com/Jina

Today, our thoughts are with those who were killed or imprisoned as a consequence of that uprising, and with all who continue to fight today—in Iran and all around the world. Let's make a world without patriarchal violence. 🏴

Introducing “Ink Lite” for Zine Printing

https://crimethinc.com/InkLite

We’ve introduced a new option for printing our zines for when you need to make a little toner go a long way. We explain the feature and present a list of all the zines we offer in “Ink Lite.” That's 45 noscripts already!

And don't forget—we offer well over 100 PDFs in our zine library.

#Distroism

Today is the birthday of Claude McKay, Jamaican-born Black author and participant in the Harlem Renaissance.

"If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!"

Occupy Wall Street got off the ground 12 years ago today.

The initial idea was pretty silly—to occupy Zuccotti Park and reach consensus on a single demand, with the naïve idea that President Barack Obama would somehow be forced to grant it.

Instead, owing to the financial crisis, as soon as a puncture opened in business as usual, tens of thousands of people poured into it, bringing a wide range of different concerns and tactics. The most combative Occupy encampments set the baseline for the protests against murderous police that broke out in 2014, setting precedents for the uprising of 2020.

You can read about some of the tensions that unfolded within the Occupy movement here:

https://crimethinc.com/2016/04/14/occupy-democracy-versus-autonomy